🗣️ 'I thought we were not going to end the race with that nose' Alex Palou’s drive from 15th to second was thanks to his car’s stickers holding its damaged front wing in place at IndyCar TorontoGP ⬇️
The secondary collision damaged the right-hand side of the nose structure, which allowed the front wing to pivot up on the left side and down on the right. The tear in the nose worsened in the final 10 laps, causing huge concern in both the cockpit and on the pit stall.
“I could feel it dragging in Turn 2, where it was flat out, and you are turning right,” Palou recalled. “I could feel it dragging. I was, like, ‘Oh, man, that's not good’. “Then also in Turn 5 and in Turn 8, but I didn't think it was that bad. I could feel that it was increasing. The right side started disappearing, and the left side started coming up. It was really bad, honestly, and it was tough to drive because I didn't really have the same grip to the right and to the left.
“Barry [Wanser, his strategist and team manager] told me ‘10 laps to go’ and I thought, honestly, that we were not going to end the race with that nose.”
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